Example sentences of "[pron] such [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Am I such a mystery , David ? ’ she asked teasingly . |
| 2 | Am I such an ogre ? ’ |
| 3 | I could n't say , You 'd give them such a shock that it 'd come as small fry when Darling Bina said she wanted a career on the stage . |
| 4 | When however consideration is given to which patients should be transferred back to locally based hospitals from the geographically remote major illness hospitals , there are comparatively few for whom such a transfer is in their best interests , clinically or socially . |
| 5 | But there are several billion people in the world to whom such a coincidence could happen , so the apparent coincidence is actually not as great as it seems . |
| 6 | Given the confusions rendered by its apparent message and a stylistic structure which subverts this message ( or , at least , creates an audience primarily among those for whom such a message is unwelcome ) , can we talk of the poem as a successful work of art ? |
| 7 | Tony Wedd taught me to spot them as possible ley markers , and the sight of a clump or an individual pine standing alone on a ridge still fills me with excitement , perhaps a resonance with the ancient traveller to whom such a sight meant the security and guidance that the straight tracks provided . |
| 8 | E. E. Kellett wrote of Joseph Parker , ‘ Why should people to whom such a pleasure as this was open , desire to go to the theatre ? |
| 9 | A patient for whom such a motive was found was described earlier ( p. 19 ) . |
| 10 | You gave me such a shock , Antoinette cried out : come out of there this minute do you hear ? |
| 11 | He gave me such a look , as if I was being really disgusting . |
| 12 | I made one stipulation only to the Foreign Secretary , Sir Alec Douglas-Home , which was that my driver should not be the same amiable young man who had led me such a dance around Johannesburg . |
| 13 | he gave me such a kind , and I may say , fatherly look ( Thursday , 28 June 1838 ) |
| 14 | Eh — ’ she laughed ’ — I remember , I put a headscarf over the lamp , and your Dad gave me such a telling off . |
| 15 | NCT has given me such a lot as I have moved twice when each of my children was 6 months , and as I attended really brilliant ante-natal classes before I had … and now that I am starting out on my ante-natal teacher training which will cost the branch £250 ( This is actually the cheapest training offered by any charity e.g. a Relate counsellor costs £600 to train ! ) , |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm sorry , love , but you gave me such a fright . |
| 17 | ‘ I early found that I had not the literary ability to give me such a place among English authors as I should have desired ; but I thought that I had an opportunity of gaining a knowledge of many of the distinguished men of the age , and that I might do some good by keeping a record of my interviews with them . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ But it seems to me such an object would be recognised by any soldier . ’ |
| 19 | In setting himself such a standard , Herbert sought to fulfil the ambition expressed when he was ordained : ‘ Though the iniquity of the late times have made clergymen meanly valued and the sacred name of priest contemptible ; yet I will labour to make it honourable , by consecrating all my learning and all my poor abilities to advance the glory of God that gave them . ’ |
| 20 | Young had proved himself such a person as assistant social worker with the deaf in Edinburgh . |
| 21 | He once reproached Sir Philip Sidney for his famous refusal of a cup of water on a Dutch battlefield as an act that looks ‘ aggressively holy ’ , and it is hard to imagine any other critic of the age allowing himself such a remark , or even conceiving of it : The okay thing would be to drink some of the cup himself and pass it on , leaving most of it to the other man … ’ |
| 22 | I really do n't like driving , I just think its such a lot of work involved in it |
| 23 | Even if there are sexual elements which the client does not see as significant , the naturalness with which such a Worker approaches the matter will probably be reflected in his answer . |
| 24 | However , it is the position in which such a feature is placed that will decide more than any other single factor whether this ideal can be translated into reality . |
| 25 | Thus the pressure , both inner and outer , on teachers to have a clear , articulate rationale for what they are doing is high at the same time as the exploration of the values from which such a rationale must derive is conspicuously out of style . |
| 26 | Although in this case the two outcomes are differentiated by the presence or the absence of a neutral event ( see also Fedorchak and Bolles 1986 ) , there are several other ways in which such a differentiation can be arranged . |
| 27 | Clara had had the sense not to try to ask her mother about a possible purchase , as she could only too clearly imagine the responses to which such a request would expose her , and the abuse which would be cast upon those girls fortunate enough to have a use for party dresses . |
| 28 | Wilberforce J held , among other things , firstly , that the retention provisions , which operated after the end of the employee 's employment , substantially interfered with his right to seek employment and therefore operated in restraint of trade ; secondly , that the transfer system and the retention system , when combined , were in restraint of trade and that , since the defendants had not discharged the onus of showing that the restraints were no more than was reasonable to protect their interests , they were in unjustifiable restraint of trade and ultra vires ; thirdly , that the court could examine a contract between employers only and declare it void on grounds on which such a contract would be declared void if it had been a contract between an employer and employee , and that it was open to an employee to bring an action for a declaration that such a contract was in restraint of trade , inasmuch as it threatened his liberty of action in seeking employment , which was a matter of public interest ; and , fourthly , that it was a case in which the court could and should grant the plaintiff the declarations sought . |
| 29 | To take the example given earlier , it is necessary to show that the statement about the toothache can indeed be paraphrased into a statement about the corresponding neuro-physiological event ( and hence that the occurrence of the latter event is a logically adequate criterion for ascribing the experience in the given instance ) , and this can not be done without making use of the premisses which such a proof might be expected to underpin . |
| 30 | If there are no goods in the shops ; or if food can only be obtained by rationing ; or if the state siphons off the lion 's share of increased earnings as taxation ; or if an economy seems incapable of growing , then people begin to question the fundamentals on which such a system is built . |